stop the widget from running in the background, on

Question

Hey, Anyone knows how to kill widget on delete(). When i delete the widget its stays running in the background,it never dies unless i foreclose the whole app. My app consists of 4 activities and the widget is not the main activity and im using thread instead of service for the appwidget.

All what i need is stop the widget from running in the background when i delete it. i've tried using system.exit(0). It didn't work, all what it does is clear all the data in the widget. Or if i can kill the app ondelete();

Any ideas? I'd really appreciated.

Answer 1

That is the normal behavior. The process is kept around in case the app needs to run again. This saves work, since it can probably just be re-used the next time the widget needs to update or the user launches the app.